Rose Byrne

Once hailed as "Audrey Hepburn with a darker edge," actress Rose Byrne launched a successful film career in the United States after an auspicious showbiz beginning on television in her native Australi...
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Former House Of Cards star Kate Mara has replaced Rose Byrne as the face of Max Mara after picking up the 2015 Max Mara Face of the Future Award. Mara will collect her new trophy at a gala in Los Angeles on 16 June (15).

Actors Seth Rogen and Zac Efron are reuniting for a sequel to hit 2014 comedy Neighbors. Director Nicholas Stoller and actress Rose Byrne will also return for Neighbors 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Russell Crowe has been given the seal of approval for his directorial debut The Water Diviner after the drama landed the coveted Best Picture prize at the Australian version of the Oscars on Thursday (29Jan15). The Water Diviner took the top prize at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, but shared the title with horror movie The Babadook.
After accepting the award via video link, Crowe wrote in a post on Twitter.com, "Oh Lordy!! (The Water Diviner) just won best film at the AACTA (Australian academy)..."
Crowe lost out on the Best Direction prize to The Babadook's Jennifer Kent and he was pipped to Best Lead Actor by Charlie's Country star David Gulpilil, but The Water Diviner clawed one back with Yilmaz Erdogan winning Best Supporting Actor.
The Babadook also took the Best Original Screenplay, Predestination's Sarah Snook was awarded Best Lead Actress, and Susan Prior landed Best Supporting Actress for The Rover.
Colin Firth's drama The Railway Man was named Best Adapted Screenplay and The Lego Movie won a visual effects prize.
Australian actress Rose Byrne was feted for her Hollywood career with the AACTA Trailblazer Award and received tributes from her Damages co-star Glenn Close and Bridesmaids' Kristen Wiig.
In the TV categories, the winners included Aussie drama series The Code, which scooped four prizes, and comedy show Please Like Me, which landed two.
The trophies were handed out at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia.

Did you recently ask eight of your closest friends to be bridesmaids at your upcoming wedding? Do you knwo that they no clue what that means? In fact, you really don't know either, because, unlike Katherine Heigel in 27 Dresses, you haven't been a member of 27 bridal parties. The role seems easy enough, but maybe you should all do some research to clarify what it entails. Of course, by "research" we mean watch some of the greatest wedding films around.
1. Bridesmaids
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This movie is the best one of the bunch for both laughs and "What Not To Do" lessons. It reminds you that spicy food is probably not best before a dress fitting, the more personal the planning, the better, and that competition amongst bridesmaids is a little silly.
2. My Best Friend's Wedding
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Maybe you're not in love with the bride, but that doesn't mean that your feelings of jealousy and a little sadness aren't valid. It's a big change to have a friend go from single to married. It makes her harder to reach and less likely to confide in you first. There's nothing wrong with expressing that to the bride, but keep in mind that this doesn't mean she won't need you again.
3. Wedding Crashers
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It's okay to feel a little emotional and lonely on your friend's big day, but don't get so emotional and lonely that you end up going home with a jerk that played right into that. Also, watch out for your fellow females that don't know about the bride's womanizer cousin.
4. 27 Dresses
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This mainly teaches you that even if the dress is hideous, you (unfortunately) have to deal with it. Just remember the fun memories it brings back and your friend's happiness on the day. Also, brides should probably watch this to remember there's a fine line between wedding themes and tackiness.
5. The Proposal
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One portion of this movie that's about bridesmaids (though, it wasn't official since the engagement was not yet real) was when they attended the strip club together. That's a good lesson in learning that funny moments (or just funny-looking strippers) are often better than what you expected for the bachelorette party.
6. Rachel's Getting Married
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Just remember that this much family in one place doesn't always mean a happy thing. You don't have to get into it as a bridesmaid, but steering the bride away from drama and family tension will always be a welcome thing.
7. I Give it a Year
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This movie teaches that your bridesmaid role can sometimes last after the wedding. Keep your friend in mind as she goes through the first year of marriage and help remind her of what her significant other has always meant to her.
8. Bride Wars
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Anne Hathaway's and bKate Hudson's have their ups and downs throughout this movie about two bridezillas that can't stop competing, but in the end they are there for each other and that's what matters. Maybe don't let everything happen that did before this moment though, maid of honors?
9. The Wedding Planner
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This movie is less romantic when you're on the side of the bride... it's more frightening. Just watch out for hot wedding planners, so your bride has nothing to worry about. Ha!
10. Runaway Bride
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This reminds you (in a worst scenario kind of way) how to deal with a bride who gets cold feet. Remind her of the man she's marrying and help her not stress about the little things that may not go according to plan on the day of.
11. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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Big families means big opinions, so try to stay calm and try not to get offended when family members on either side get too personal or intrusive. Often you may know their tendencies (at least the bride's family's), so the occasional save may be needed from your for the groom.
12. Four Weddings and a Funeral
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This may not be the moral of the movie, but making sure the bride looks darn good is definitely in your line of duty. A wobbly flower crown or exposed bra straps in the photos that'll be on several walls for the next hundred years is not going to be good thing.
13. The Wedding Singer
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Embarrassing speeches are bound to happen every now and then (hey, it's a lot of pressure!), but maybe keep them a little more toned down then this one. Liquid courage is one thing, but too much can bring up failure and family problems, which NO ONE wants to sit through.
14. Father of the Bride
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This is another lesson is saving the groom, on occasion, from over protective fathers, but it's also a lesson in reminding the bride to make this day as easy as possible for dad who's giving away his little girl.
Watch these with your bridal party together to get a good idea of what you all should and should not do on your big day!

Actress Anna Chlumsky is set to make her Broadway debut in the revival of You Can't Take It With You next year (15). The former child star will replace Rose Byrne on 6 January (15) at the Longacre Theatre.
Actor Richard Thomas will also be joining the cast, which includes James Earl Jones, Kristine Nielsen and Elizabeth Ashley, in the role currently being played by Mark Linn-Baker.
Byrne and Linn-Baker will play their last shows on 4 January (15).

Hit thriller Gone Girl and sci-fi action movie Guardians Of The Galaxy are among the top nominees at the 2014 New Now Next Awards. Gone Girl, based on Gillian Flynn's 2012 book of the same name, has been shortlisted twice for Best New Lead Film Actress for Rosamund Pike and Carrie Coon, alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle), Jennie Slate (Obvious Child) and Natalie Dormer (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1), while author Flynn is up for Best New Screenwriter.
Meanwhile, James Gunn will battle it out for the title of Best Motion Picture By a New Filmmaker for Guardians of the Galaxy, and his leading man Chris Pratt will compete for Best New Lead Film Actor, facing off with Miles Teller (Whiplash), Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood), Dylan O'Brien (The Maze Runner) and Ansel Elgort (The Fault In Our Stars).
Movie stars also dominated the theatre acting categories, with Bryan Cranston (All The Way), Rupert Grint (It's Only a Play) and Michael Cera (This Is Our Youth) up for Best New Broadway Lead Actor, while Rose Byrne (You Can't Take It With You), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Real Thing) and Michelle Williams (Cabaret) feature in the female equivalent.
In the TV section, acting nominees include Orange is the New Black's Lorraine Toussaint, House of Cards' Molly Parker, Pedro Pascal from Game of Thrones and The Leftovers' Justin Theroux, while Gwen Stefani's turn on The Voice has earned her an unexpected nod in the Best New Television Personality category.
Music nominees feature the likes of Iggy Azalea, her Fancy collaborator Charli XCX and Meghan Trainor for Best New Musician (Female), with Nick Jonas, Sam Smith and Paolo Nutini leading the way in the male category.
The annual awards show highlights the best new talent in pop culture. Winners will be determined by public vote and announced during a ceremony in December (14).

The X-Men are set to become the next comic book superheroes to head to the small screen, according to reports.
Producers at America's Fox network are said to have been discussing plans to develop a live-action TV series based on the hit Marvel Comics' mutant characters "for a while now", although an official deal has yet to be made, reports BleedingCool.com. If the rumors are true, the X-Men, co-created by Stan Lee, won't be the only comics to be brought to life on TV - The Walking Dead, Agents of SHIELD, Arrow, The Flash and Gotham are just some of the shows based on popular graphic novels.

Hip-hop stars Common and Questlove and actors Jon Hamm and Kerry Washington have joined U.S. President Barack Obama in a new public service announcement calling for an end to sexual violence on college campuses. Music producer Randy Jackson, actresses Rose Byrne, Connie Britton and Mayim Bialik and Vice President Joe Biden also feature in White House officials' It's On Us campaign, which aims to raise awareness about the rising number of student sexual assaults across the U.S..
Mad Men star Hamm opens the ad by saying, "It's on us to stop sexual assault", while Washington continues, "To get in the way before it happens."
The celebrities go on to urge young men to protect female friends by making sure they get home safely.
The PSA was unveiled on Friday (19Sep14) and Obama underlined the importance of rallying support for the campaign by stating, "Our society still does not sufficiently value women. We still don't condemn sexual assault as loudly as we should.
"Unless women are allowed to reach their full potential, America cannot reach its full potential. So we've got to change. It is on all of us to reject the quiet tolerance of sexual assault and to refuse to accept what's unacceptable.
"Our nation's success depends on how we value and defend the rights of women and girls."

Australian actress Rose Byrne had a big dance sequence cut from the forthcoming Annie movie remake after she failed to get to grips with the choreography. The Bridesmaids star portrays Jamie Foxx's personal assistant Grace Farrell in the new film, which also features Cameron Diaz as Miss Hannigan and Quvenzhane Wallis as the titular orphan, but one of her biggest musical scenes had to be reworked because of her lack of rhythm.
She explains, "Over the summer last year I filmed the remake of Annie... and I have a dance number, so I had a number of lessons leading up to that.
"It was a very big number initially and it just started to get shorter and shorter and shorter, and finally I came to one of my last lessons and they're like, 'We're just gonna walk. We're just gonna do some walking...!'"
And Byrne admits that wasn't the only movie skill she struggled to pick up - a stuntwoman had to double for her during ice skating scenes in new comedy This Is Where I Leave You.
She says, "I play an ice skating teacher so I got a bunch of lessons and I was pretty bad.
"That was my body double (in the final film edit)! She's amazing, she's a pro. I can go backwards and I can go forwards. I learned how to go backwards but there were two year olds just zooming by on the rink!"

Megan (Melissa McCarthy), AKA Dougie's sister, is the best character in Bridesmaids. She's got the highest possible security clearance (don't repeat that!), an 18-wheeler just because, and people used to throw firecrackers at her head. Literally. If that doesn't sound like someone you want to be, then you're probably crazy.
She’s got the best bachelorette party ideas:
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She does her best at being apologetic, which is really all you can ask for:
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She does not bloat:
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It's a gift.
She’s not afraid to poop wherever, even if it’s a really fancy Bridal shop:
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She is the queen of seduction:
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She has better dance moves than everyone else:
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She gives excellent life advice.
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She is not afraid to admit what she wants from a man:
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She is incredibly graceful:
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She can help anyone find the solution to their problems:
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Because when she gets hurt, she does it the right way:
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She spoke to a dolphin once:
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She’s not afraid to take what she wants:
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She’s always willing to watch your back:
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She’s honest in a way we wish we all could be:
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Cast in production of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" at Sydney Theatre Company

Co-starred with Heath Ledger in critically acclaimed film "Two Hands"

Featured opposite Australian musician Darren Hayes in his music video "I Miss You"

Starrred opposite Matt Dillon and James Caan in "City of Ghosts"

Co-starred with Nicolas Cage in sci-fi thriller "Knowing"

Summary

Once hailed as "Audrey Hepburn with a darker edge," actress Rose Byrne launched a successful film career in the United States after an auspicious showbiz beginning on television in her native Australia. Her pivotal role as Trojan princess Briseis in the epic "Troy" (2004) marked her first major exposure to American audiences, after which she lent her effusive charm to mainstream successes like "28 Weeks Later" (2007) and represented a promising new breed of young actor in the youthful thriller "Wicker Park" (2004), the new wave biopic "Marie Antoinette" (2006), and the Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Get Him to the Greek" (2010). An acclaimed co-starring role on the biting legal series "Damages" (FX, 2007-2012) firmly established Byrne's strength for mild-mannered characters who conceal an unexpected strength just below the surface.

Education

"It's sort of impossible to plan as an actor because it's a very passive job. Really, it's just waiting until you get another gig." – Byrne quoted in Interview magazine, July 2004

"Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like." – Byrne to Movieline magazine, September 2004